Education

Battle Veteran Presents Iwo Jima Film and Talk

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Courtesy photo

Library News:

A video, including an interview with a local Iwo Jima Marine Corp veterans, will be shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.19 at Mesa Public Library, Upstairs Meeting Rooms.

Battle veteran Bill Hudson will show a video “Uncommon Valor: The Battle of Iwo Jima,” produced by the Canadian History Channel.

On this 68 anniversary of the American forces’ landing on Iwo Jima, this showing will commemorate that historic battle and all those who fought and those who were lost.

This video has not been aired  publicly on television in the United States.

Hudson went back to Iwo Read More

Learning Opportunity for Middle School Science Teachers

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NIST News:
 
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now taking applications for the 2013 NIST Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers, to be held July 8-19, 2013 in Gaithersburg, Md.
 
The NIST Summer Institute is a two-week workshop for middle school science teachers featuring hands-on activities, lectures, tours and visits with NIST scientists and engineers in their laboratories.
 
Teachers who participate in the NIST Summer Institute gain:
  • Increased understanding of the subjects they teach;
  • Increased understanding of how
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Voters Elect Michelle Hall to College Board

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Michelle Hall

Staff report

Los Alamos voters tonight elected Michelle Hall 251 to 44 to replace incumbent Ron Dolin in Position 1 on the UNM-LA Advisory Board.

Hall owns Science Education Solutions, Inc., a small research and development company invested in promoting science and technology literacy.

“Higher education is the cornerstone to our past and future economic success in Los Alamos County. UNM-LA has been providing high quality instruction, certificates and degrees that serve a wide range of student needs, but too often is flying “under the radar” and Read More

Children Remain Inside White Rock’s Chamisa and Pinon Schools While Police Hunt Bank Robber

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LAPS News:

Both Chamisa Elementary School and Pinon Elementary School in White Rock will keep students in school until parents/guardians pick them up this afternoon.

“In cooperation with local police, we are following this procedure as a safety precaution as they continue their investigation of a bank robbery suspect (s) potentially in the area,” from a statement released by Los Alamos Public Schools.

LAPS said that police patrols have been beefed up in the area around the schools and there will be an increased police presence at the schools while parents pick up their Read More

Voting Ends at 7 p.m. Today!

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Los Alamos resident Steve Ciddio walks toward the Los Alamos Community Building where voting is underway until 7 p.m. today as well as at Fire Station 3 in White Rock. Photo by Carol A. CLark/ladailypost.com

Staff report

Voters registered in Los Alamos County have until 7 p.m. today, Feb. 5, to cast a ballot for the 2013 Los Alamos School Board/UNM-LA Advisory Board Election.

Voting is underway at the Los Alamos Community Building at 20th Street and Central Avenue and in White Rock at Fire Station 3 on N.M. 4 just beyond Rover Boulevard.

Vote for one candidate in each District for the LAPS School Board: Read More

LAHS College Signing Date Changed

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LAHS News:

Los Alamos High School athlete Zak Kennison’s signing a National Letter of Intent with Colorado Mesa University, in Grand Junction, Colo., is being changed to 11:25 a.m. Friday, instead of Wednesday.

Joining Kennison will be Sean Reardon who will sign with Adams State University.

Both young men are going on to participate in Cross Country and Track.

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Lecture Examines Seven LANL Explosive Fatalities

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Cary Skidmore. Courtesy photo

By Kirsten Laskey

In 1954, seven workers in Los Alamos lost their lives as a result of three high explosive accidents.

It is not a well-known event. In fact, at the time, even the workers’ families were not given a lot of information.

Times have changed, however, and Cary Skidmore, a group leader for the Explosives Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is sharing the story with the public.

Skidmore will present “The Seven LANL Explosives Fatalities: Technical and Human Perspective,” as part of the Los Alamos Historical Society’s lecture series.

The free talk Read More

SFI Seminar: Shared Information — New Insights and Problems in Decomposing Information in Complex System

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Eckehard Olbrich

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute presents a SFI Seminar by Eckehard Olbrich, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, at 12:15 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7 in the Collins Conference Room at 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

Olbrich’s seminar is titled “Shared Information — New Insights and Problems in Decomposing Information in Complex System.”

Abstract: How can the information that a set of random variables contains about another random variable be decomposed? To what extent do different subgroups provide the same, i.e. shared or redundant, Read More

Los Alamos Athlete to Sign with Colorado Mesa University

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LAHS News:

Wednesday, Feb. 6, Los Alamos High School athlete Zak Kennison will sign a National Letter of Intent with Colorado Mesa University, in Grand Junction, Colo.

The community is invited to join Kennison in the main lobby area at 11:20 a.m. Wednesday for his signing.

Kennison will be continuing to run cross country and track for Colorado Mesa University. They are a NCAA Division II college and compete in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

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LANB Hosts School Bond Celebration

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Aspen Elementary School Principal Kathryn Vandenkieboom spoke at a gathering at Los Alamos National Bank Friday afternoon celebrating the recent school bond passage and thanked everyone for their support. A portion of the $20 million bond will provide a much needed construction overhaul of the aging Aspen Elementary School building. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

County Councilor Steve Girrens spoke of the importance of the school bond and thanked everyone for their efforts. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Superintendent Gene Schmidt, right, expressed his appreciation Read More